Spotify is writing massive amounts of junk data to storage drives

Enlarge / SSD modules like this one are being abused by Spotify. (credit: iFixit) For almost five months—possibly longer—the Spotify music streaming app has been assaulting users’ storage devices with enough data to potentially take years off their expected lifespans. Reports of tens or in some cases hundreds of gigabytes being… Read entire story.

Source: Ars Technica